[Ads-l] Antedating of "so far, so good"

[Steven Losie]

SO FAR, SO GOOD (OED3, 1721)

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[...]So far, so good: we are now got half way through this hard knotty
Business, we only want a Physician to go through the other half, to perform
the _Medicine_[...]
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Source: The catholic medicine, and soverain healer rectifying and assisting
the depraved functions, of infirm and diseased bodies..., p.5, 1684, London
(Early English Books Online)
Author: Everard Maynwaringe
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A50431.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

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